New Labour in PowerDavid Coates, Peter Augustine Lawler Manchester University Press, 2000 - 318 pages A systematic and comprehensive study of the early performance of New Labour in power. It brings together the results of a co-ordinated research initiative underway in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, charting the developing relationship between election promise and government policy across the whole sweep of New Labour's manifesto agenda. Each chapter examines New Labour's initial comments, charts opening policy moves, and traces policy trajectories in each major department of state; so generating a comprehensive audit of New Labour's electoral fidelity and an academically-informed assessment of New Labour's likely policy trajectory though its first period of office. |
Contents
The character of New Labour David Coates | 1 |
New Labour and the electorate Andrew Russell | 16 |
New Labour and the Clinton Presidency Douglas Jaenicke | 34 |
New Labour and the Left that is left in Western Europe Jill Lovecy | 49 |
New Labour and the machinery of government Martin Burch and Ian Holliday | 65 |
New Labour and the constitution Martin Burch and Ian Holliday | 80 |
New Labour and Northern Ireland Nick Randall | 92 |
The economic policy of New Labour Michael Moran and Elizabeth Alexander | 108 |
New Labours education policy Gail Stedward | 169 |
New Labour and welfare reform David Purdy | 181 |
New Labour and health Bruce Wood | 195 |
New Labour and law and order Inderjeet Parmar | 207 |
New Labour policies for the media and the arts Peter Humphreys | 221 |
fresh start or false dawn? Simon Bulmer | 240 |
New Labour and international development Ralph A Young | 254 |
New Labour and defence Philip Gummett | 268 |
New Labours industrial and employment policy David Coates | 122 |
New Labour and the global economy Rorden Wilkinson | 136 |
New Labour and the environment Stephen Young | 149 |
New Labours foreign policy Peter Lawler | 281 |
Changes in Labour Party policies 197997 | 300 |
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